Okean-O1 Credit - NASA

Production prototype of Okean-O1 oceanographic radarsat, designed to test new kinds of information-measuring apparatus and methods of remote investigation of the Pacific Ocean in the interests of science and of various branches of the national economy of the USSR.

It was equipped with:

SUOS pointing, orientation, and stabilization system including:

Korall-A6 radio-command command-programming-trajectory system

BR-91Ts radiotelemetry system

STR thermoregulation system

SEP electrical feed system

SM-5 magnetometer

RFA radiophysical instrument with:

RLSBO side-looking radar with a swath width of 450 km and a resolution of 1.3 x 2.6 km

RM-0.8 scanning radiometer with a swath width of 550 km and a resolution of 25 km

RTBK radio-television complex with:

MSU-M 4-band multispectral scanner with a swath width of 1900 km and a resolution of 1.8 km

MSU-S 2-band multispectral scanner with a swath width of 1100 km and a resolution of 410 m

Kondor-2 system for interrogation, acquisition, storage, and dumping of data from Kondor-1 earth ground stations

Typical orbit: 597 km x 625 km at 83 degrees inclination. Mass: 1,950 kg (4,290 lb). Associated Launch Vehicle: Tsyklon 3.

• 1983 September 28 - Cosmos 1500 - Program: Okean. Launch Site: Plesetsk. Launch Vehicle: Tsyklon 3. Mass: 1,950 kg (4,290 lb). Perigee: 596 km (370 mi). Apogee: 621 km (385 mi). Inclination: 82.50 deg. Period: 96.90 min.

  Elaboration of new kinds of information-measuring apparatus and methods of remote investigation of the Pacific Ocean in the interests of science and of various branches of the national economy of the USSR.

• 1984 September 28 - Cosmos 1602 - Program: Okean. Launch Site: Plesetsk. Launch Vehicle: Tsyklon 3. Mass: 1,950 kg (4,290 lb). Perigee: 597 km (370 mi). Apogee: 628 km (390 mi). Inclination: 82.50 deg. Period: 97.00 min.

  Gathering of operational information and continued trials of new kinds of information and measurement apparatus and methods of remote investigation of the seas and oceans and the earth's surface in the interests of science and of various branches of the n ational economy of the USSR.

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